Green Economy Task Force

Green For All: Green Recovery For All series

These pamphlets can help you understand key components of the Recovery Act, including what funds are available, how the funds may be used, and how cities, states and other entities can maximize the benefit to their communities.

Understanding the Competitive Grants for Green Jobs Training

Green For All has prepared this pamphlet about the U.S. Department of Labor’s $500 million in Competitive Grants for Green Jobs Training, which are new under the Recovery Act.  The pamphlet is meant as a resource for policy advocates, policy makers, employers, individuals, and applicants.  It includes key information about each grant program, recommendations for how grantees can best implement these grants, and tips for writing grant proposals.

ONVIA: Tracking Recovery

This website allows you to track where recovery projects are occuring and how much of the recovery money is being spent on the state or county levels.  Details about specific projects are also available.  Visit the website here.

Federal Resources to Enhance and Sustain Green Pathways out Of Poverty Programs

This guide includes a short list of federal discretionary resources (mostly that existed before ARRA) that may support a diverse array of services and activities for participants in green jobs training programs, and includes excerpts of descriptions from the programs’ websites. This list is not meant to be exhaustive but to encourage broad and creative thinking about strategic planning for the financing and sustainability of green pathway out of poverty programs.

United States Government’s Stimulus Website

In order to accomplish the mission set out in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and provide information for the public to monitor the progress of the stimulus package, Recovery.gov has set up this website featuring:

• Weekly updates of the agencies’ funding notifications and financial and activity reports
• Map presenting state-by-state funding
• Graphs charting the weekly progress of agencies’s made available and paid-out funds
• Map showing the recipients of funds and the resulting projects
• Written reports on the agencies’ plans for where and how they’ll spend the funds
• Information on Federal contracts, grants and loans
• A map illustrating the estimates of jobs to be created or saved and links to job information sites
• Links to State Recovery sites and other government Recovery sites
• Tools for the public to report for waste, fraud and abuse of recovery funds
• Oversight audits by the Inspectors General of each Agency

Visit the site here.

Economic Recovery- A Philadelphia Agenda

This report, published by the Institute for the Study of Civic Values, lays out the goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and how those goals relate to challenges facing Philadelphia.  Specifically, it lays out seven goals of the program that can help Philadelphia succeed.  These goals are: Protect the safety net economy; rehabilitate and repair affordable housing; weatherize Philadelphia; repair roads and highways and expand public transportation; strengthen Philadelphia health care; create public safety and community service jobs; and assist small businesses.

A Guide to the ARRA in Pennsylvania

This guide, produced by Senator Casey’s office, outlines why the ARRA is good for Pennsylvania, how funding will flow to Pennsylvania, and then a category by category breakdown of benefits for Pennsylvanians. 

Green For All’s Bringing Home the Green Recovery

The recently passed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is a big, bold, and historic investment intended to kick-start the United States economy and lay the foundation for long-term economic growth and stability.  It can also serve as a down payment, if invested wisely, on building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.

The challenge, however, is the political and economic urgency to spend Recovery Act funds quickly in order to put large numbers of people back to work.

Green For All and PolicyLink have prepared this User’s Guide to assist local and state advocates, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and policymakers in making the best use of recovery dollars.

www.sbnphiladelphia.org